writer, researcher, and editor
In this post: I get real about the jobs I tried to get in my transition to alt-ac and Post-PhD. Let's talk about the jobs I tried to get, how little I was paid, ad what I learned from that experience.
Read MoreIn this post: I review former academic turned novelist Amy Gentry's latest thriller "Bad Habits" and its reminder of the crucial role of imagination.
Read MoreIn this post: What is culturally responsive pedagogy? How do you decolonize the classroom? On the importance of refined critical thinking skills.
Read MoreIn this post: I talk to a friend of mine from graduate school and asked her what the most enraging thing a professor told her was, and her response was worse than I could've imagined.
Read MoreIn this post: It's too late to save education, and it has been since the 1970s. In this post, I explain why in the context of neoliberal policy and deregulation.
Read MoreIn this post: Academia is no meritocracy. Neoliberal ideology-driven competition turns us into fools, shame on us.
Read MoreIn this post, I talk about my evolution as a person both through and beyond my PhD in art history, why the concept of the “canon” is racist and sexist since the grant majority of “canonical” artists are but white and male. And how Kimberle Crenshaw's "intersectional feminism" is the only canon I answer to. Screw Paul Gauguin.
Read MoreIn this post: I cover my plenary talk at the Reward Equator Conference in Berlin. I also include an amazing collection of engaged scholars I've found who are dedicated to supporting Ph.D. researchers.
Read MoreIn this post: I talk about what I've learned about how to exist as an educator and how to extend that beyond the context of academia.
Read MoreIn this post: For the love of pedagogy, I discuss my role as a professor and a teacher in NYC, and how there is zero incentive for educators to care about their students.
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